Hey, I'm pengu1nsp0rk. I was semi-active on the brahkie forums if anyone here remembers that. I am just wandering around, decluttering my mind from all the 2020s slop, trying to go back to older forms of communication and reminiscing on the 2000s like everyone else and their mother.

I like playing ...

So this is something I've been thinking about for a while is how nostalgia seems to weaponized online. For a lot of us, perhaps with some rose tinted glasses, have positive memories with older tech, and the old web and I think there are things we can learn from it (aka, offline as an option, RSS ...

I always see this kind of thread everywhere in other forums. This doomer mentality that the "old web" was so much better and that the modern web has gone to shit. Not that that's entirely wrong but I feel this point has been obnoxious to the alt web, atleast to me. We need to move on at some point ...

In my opinion, phone UI peaked with Android's Jellybean 4.3. And it's not just nostalgia, I think the UI for that version of android was a good mix between minimalism and skeuomorphism.

<div class="message">Here you go (there's another row of dvd behind the ones on the third picture)<br/><br/><a href="https://ibb.co/Qvbddm7d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/Qvbddm7d/IMG-2743.jpg" style="max-width:100%;"/></a> <a href="https://ibb.co/QFqnYXNg" rel="nofollow ...

so #retro............
jokes aside this is really cool!! i never knew laptops existed all the way back then lol i thought they started around windows xp or windows vista

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas... And I got AN EPIK GIFT


WOW bro it looks AWESOME :yellow_hail:
Also the old design of the intel sticker adds to the style as well, i don't think I've ever seen that design.

And btw you've gotta let us see it turned on :blue_redface: :blue_redface ...

<div class="message"><img alt="Laptop" src="https://xatimg.com/image/Qu9E6F4ka9rg.jpg" style="max-width:100%;"/><br/><br/><div><img alt="Vista 2" src="https://xatimg.com/image/ALbB8F9BP97u.jpg" style="max-width:100%;"/></div><div><br/></div><div>Here's my childhood laptop which I used around 2007 ...

Just finished piecing this together :xmas_santa:

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Funny thing, for some reason Home Premium was the hardest to get of all of them. Well I mean, you can get it on ebay for like 30 bucks but unfortunately I can't use ebay because their payment options don't work here, and ...

This is a search engine for archived old websites, the "directories" is an easy way to find something interesting.
www.oldavista.com Old'aVista Home.png


Another cool site: theoldnet.com , it removes the modern elements of the wayback machine which allows it to be usable on old browsers and ...